Heidi Ellison
Travels in France: the Dordogne
How I Spent My Summer Vacation, Part I
With all the confusion about red countries and different vaccination and quarantine requirements, the outlook wasn’t good for a foreign vacation this summer, so I decided to spend mine in France. No hardship there. The question was, where to go? … Read More
Paris Update Events 25.08.2021
September 4 Twenty-four-hour Picassofest The Picasso Museum stays open for 24 hours and presents concerts, DJ sets, readings, talks, performances, a film and a dawn meditation session in honor of the artist. Reserve on the website. September 4 Covid-inspired creative … Read More
Salgado Amazônia
Paradise Transformed
The first thing you see when you enter the darkened “Salgado Amazônia” exhibition space in the Musée de la Musique at the Philharmonie de Paris will knock your socks off: a large, grainy, high-contrast black-and-white print of heavy, roiling, black-edged … Read More
The Power of My Hands
Threading the Lines of Filiation
Speaking of women-only exhibitions (see last week’s review of “Women in Abstraction”), I recommend a visit to the show “The Power of My Hands” at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, which presents the work of 16 African women artists … Read More
Hôtel Rochechouart Restaurant
Good-Looking Decor and Customers
What a shock to walk down the seedy Boulevard de Rochechouart during lockdown and come across a building with a beautiful Art Deco facade and a large, perfectly appointed brasserie visible through the window. Where had it come from? In … Read More
Paris Update Press Review
This Week's Good Reads about Paris and France
French vegetarians? Multistarred chef Alain Ducasse predicts a gradual shift in French eating habits toward a plant-based diet. (BBC) Ethical foie gras Lab-grown foie gras comes without the ethical concerns of the real thing, but now a French association says … Read More
Women in Abstraction
Women Apart: Spotlight or Ghetto?
Ideally, there would be no need for all-women exhibitions of art that make a special case for – and risk ghettoizing or condescending to – women artists; women would simply be included in sufficient numbers in all group shows and … Read More
Bouche Restaurant
Watch What You Put in Your Mouth!
What you put in your bouche (mouth) matters. What can be found in the new, post-lockdown restaurant called Bouche? High-quality food, a hard-surface minimalist decor and a sky-high decibel level. Located not far from Achi, the restaurant reviewed here last … Read More
Paris Update Press Review
This Week's Good Reads about Paris and France
Eiffel Tower reopens The tourists are back and their favorite monument is now ready for them. (Euronews) Jean Paul Gaultier’s new adventures “I am amused all the time,” says the ebullient erstwhile “enfant terrible” of French fashion in an interview … Read More
Achi Restaurant
Achi Parmentier
THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED The slowly gentrifying Avenue Parmentier in Paris’s 11th arrondissement has a new restaurant, Achi, that will certainly speed up the process, in the best sense. The kitchen is manned by yet another convert from the … Read More